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    14 days ago

    It’s easier to eat salad by putting your face in the bowl and chomping away.

    Source: I am a cow and I won several local salad eating competitions.

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      When I’m alone I eat salads with my bare hands if there’s no dressing on it. But when I’m in proper company with people I have to socially adapt and I’m required to use utensils.

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        Society sucks, cows are cool. salad is a way of life, not a ‘side dish’

        radish!

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      Easier to eat sticky rice (like in Japan) with chopsticks than a spoon, and cultures that don’t make sticky rice (China, Korea) don’t eat rice with chopsticks.

      Actually I know Korea uses a spoon and I think China does for fried rice but if they have a bowl of white rice they might use chopsticks because it’s culturally acceptable to pick up the bowl and just kind of push it into your mouth.

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      Yes, rice is best eating with spoons. I have no idea how people eat rice with chopsticks. They’re crazy. Actually I think they eat sticky chunky rice, so they pick up the rice in clusters with chopsticks and that’s great for them but that is not the kind of food I eat so whatever.

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      I mean, that’s basically what most of those “super greens” smoothies are.

      Plus grass. They put a lot of grass clippings in those, too. And I don’t think it’s because it’s healthy or because it tastes good or anything, I think they put grass in those smoothies because, and hear me out here, I think it’s because it’s part of a secret hazing ritual as part of the initiation to join a secret society of religious zealots hellbent on resurrecting Lord Jamba who will invoke the Razzmatazzmapocalypse and

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      14 days ago

      Good news! Eating things like salad, chips/crisps, fried rice, noodle dishes, ramen, etc. is a great way to get good with chopsticks.

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      I learned how to use chopsticks in my college years. It’s not that difficult. I was born in Wyoming to German/Irish immigrant descendants so I am not culturally your typical chopstick user, but I’ve decided that I’m going to keep chopsticks handy for salads from now on.

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        They never said it was difficult. Just stating the fact that eating salad with chopsticks is only easier if you already know how to use them.

        I totally agree with you that it’s easy, but many people still don’t know how.

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      13 days ago

      The fork tines are dull. Cannot stab anything except for the middle chunky part of the lettuce. Nothing else on that plate is stab-able and it’s driving me crazy.

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    My salads often contain corn or nuts. There’s simply no way the shoveling abilities of a fork is harder than having to pick up small pieces with chopsticks.

    And even the big leaves, how is stabbing down once and getting 5 leaves at the same time harder than doing more motions to “grab” the same amount of leaves?

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      You can absolutely shovel with chopsticks. It may take a little extra dexterity, but is far from impossible. It’s really only harder if you haven’t much practice with chopsticks. Besides, shoveling anything with a fork is kind of a disaster when you throw leafy greens into the mix.

      That’s not how I eat a salad with chopsticks. No stabbing, no shoveling; at the dinner table that is bad etiquette. It’s more like “grabbing” a clump of lettuce and toppings mixed together with a couple “fingers”, except your “fingers” are chopsticks. Most of the small bits stick to the leafy greens or are inherently wrapped up in them. I find picking those few remaining tiny bits out of the bottom of a bowl is actually easier with chopsticks than trying to shovel them on to a fork.

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    14 days ago

    Yep, this is absolutely true. Japanese people taught me this. But what totally blows Japanese people’s minds is okonomiyaki is best eaten with a fork.

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    14 days ago

    Chopsticks would definitely be well-suited to some, but there are many kinds of salads, so YMMV.

    A spoon or soup spoon can also work best with some…

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    Hard disagree. You can shovel most salads with a fork so unless you’ve got the plate up to your face and you’re sliding the salad in like you would do with a bowl of rice and chopsticks then it’s fork all day

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      You shouldn’t be shoveling a salad unless it’s potato or macaroni salad. Maybe your thinking of coleslaw? Leafy green salads are nearly impossible to shovel with a fork unless you mince the ingredients into unrecognizably tiny bits, aka a slaw. With very little practice, eating with chopsticks isn’t much different than eating with your fingers. In fact, there’s a few things I can do with chopsticks that I could never easily do with my fingers or a fork.